DISCOVER WHERE YOU LIVE
Tourism board websites are a useful source
of Canada 150-themed events taking place
locally. Surf Toronto's seetorontonow.com,
for instance, for information about the TIFF
Bell Lightbox's Canadian film ticket give-
away or the city's plans to host the 2017
North American Indigenous Games (NAIG)
in July and the Invictus Games for military
veterans in September.
There are dozens of federally-sponsored
Canadian Signature Experiences as well,
ranging from tours to festivals, listed at
caen-keepexploring.canada.travel. One must-
see event is Rendez-vous Naval 2017, a
regatta of tall ships dropping anchor in
dozens of port communities this summer,
and reuniting the full fleet in Québec City,
July 18–23.
Hotels are getting into the spirit of cele-
bration, too. The Drake Hotel in Toronto is
hosting Sunday Nights in Canada, a prix-
fixe dinner series. The Ritz-Carlton,
Toronto's 1867 Package offers a Simcoe Suite
with panoramic views and a daily $600
credit to use at the hotel's spa or TOCA
restaurant. And Vancouver's The Loden has
a Canada 150 package with tickets to the
nature film FlyOver Canada.
Another way to gain fresh perspective on
familiar surroundings is to book a daytrip
or tour in your home town.
In Ottawa, retired National Newspaper
Award-winning photographer Chris Mikula,
now a bike guide with Escape Bicycle Tours,
can show you how to perfect your shots of
national monuments on a photographic
tour of Canada's capital.
Or in Desbiens, Lac Saint-Jean, follow a
walking trail past waterfalls and an old
hydroelectric station to Parc de la Caverne
"Trou de la Fée" (Fairies' Hole Cavern), then
take a three-hour guided tour of Québec's
only natural bat cave.
Lesser-known tourist experiences like
these await discovery in the unlikeliest of
places—and this is the year to go find them.
"Always keep exploring where you
live," sums up TDA Global Cycling's
Henry Gold. "Where you end up is almost
immaterial; it's about the people you'll
meet and all the little stories you'll find
everywhere."
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TRAVEL PLANNER
For more information on these and other Canadian events and tours offered by tour opera-
tors and organizers, visit:
Adventure Canada: adventurecanada.com
AdventureSmith Explorations: adventuresmithexplorations.com
Backroads: backroads.com
Butterfield & Robinson: butterfield.com
Canadian Signature Experiences: caen-keepexploring.canada.travel
Edible Canada: ediblecanada.com
Escape Bicycle Tours: escapebicycletours.ca
Exodus Travels: exodustravels.com/ca
Finisterra Travel: finisterra.ca
Frontiers North Adventures: frontiersnorth.com
Fjord en Kayak: fjordenkayak.ca/en
Geckos Adventures: geckosadventures.com
Gray & Co.: grayandco.ca
H+I Adventures: mountainbikeworldwide.com/bike-tours/yukon-canada
Merit Travel: merit.ca
Natural Habitat Adventures: nathab.com
One Ocean Expeditions: oneoceanexpeditions.com
Parc de la Caverne "Trou de la Fée": cavernetroudelafee.ca
Ritz-Carlton Toronto: ritzcarlton.com/en/hotels/canada/toronto
Tauck: tauck.com
TDA Global Cycling: tdaglobalcycling.com
The Drake Hotel: thedrakehotel.ca
The Great Trail: thegreattrail.ca
Tourism Toronto: SeeTorontoNow.com
World Expeditions Travel Group: worldexpeditions.com
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